Web Exchange Enables Members to Publish and Interact with Engineering Innovations using Groundbreaking Technology
5 January 2001
Web Exchange Enables Members to Publish and Interact with Engineering Innovations using Groundbreaking Technology
WALTHAM, Mass.--Jan. 5, 2001--NASA Tech Briefs Magazine and Innovation Chain, Inc., today announce that the NASA Tech Briefs Model and Simulation Exchange is now live. The Exchange is an interactive Web resource, which enables members to publish and share their innovations with a community of peers and potential customers as well as research and interact with models and simulations in a way never before possible. The Exchange can be found at http://nasatech.innovationchain.com/first.asp.Interaction on the Exchange is achieved through the Innovation Chain Plug-in, which distills complex, multidisciplinary technical data used in creating models and simulations, and delivers it in an Excel interface. When an Exchange member interacts with a model or simulation, the Plug-in kicks off calculations on remote Innovation Chain servers, which interface with a variety of software packages, and sends customized results back to the Exchange member's computer.
In addition, members are able to convert their own innovations into interactive models and simulations to be posted on the Exchange, allowing them to receive feedback from their peers and securely promote their innovations to potential customers. With this new technology, Exchange members can quickly evaluate a technology's suitability to their needs, as well as try out new model and simulation software.
Interactive technical supplements to articles found in NASA Tech Briefs Magazine are also published on the Exchange.
"Through our partnership with Innovation Chain, we expect to accelerate the rate of technology commercialization through NASA Tech Briefs, bolstering our position as the number one resource for design engineers seeking ways to improve their products," said Joseph Pramberger, publisher of NASA Tech Briefs. "For the first time our readers will be able to interactively evaluate the applicability of an innovation to their needs."
"We are happy to have NASA Tech Briefs as our launch partner," added Dr. Gahl Berkooz, Innovation Chain Founder and CTO. "Their service to manufacturing companies dovetails nicely with our infrastructure for abstracting and delivering technical information across multiple disciplines."
About NASA Tech Briefs:
First issued as single sheet reports in the 1960s and converted to a magazine format in the 1970s, NASA Tech Briefs has been a joint publishing venture of NASA and ABP International (New York City) since 1985, a pioneering government-private sector partnership that has saved taxpayers millions of dollars in publishing costs while dramatically increasing the magazine's reach to OEM design/development engineers and managers. Today, NASA Tech Briefs has a qualified circulation of 200,000, and total monthly readership surpassing 450,000.
The monthly magazine and its Web site (www.nasatech.com) feature exclusive reports of innovations developed by NASA and its industry partners/contractors that can be applied to develop new/improved products and solve engineering or manufacturing problems. Authored by the engineers or scientists who did the work, the briefs span a wide array of fields, including electronics, physical sciences, materials, computer software, mechanics, machinery/automation, manufacturing/fabrication, mathematics/information sciences, and life sciences.
About Innovation Chain:
Innovation Chain provides software and services that help technology and manufacturing companies reduce time to revenue and increase the profit of their products.
The open, XML-based Innovation Chain Platform abstracts complex, multi-disciplinary technical data and presents it in an easy-to-understand, interactive format so it can be used to speed core business processes and improve decision making at every stage of the product life cycle.
Drawing on its in-depth process expertise and the Platform, Innovation Chain builds Process Engineering Risk Management (PERM) solutions that drive business. This new category of process-specific models -- coupled with performance-level guarantees -- lowers costs, increases productivity, improves product quality, and accelerates profitability in manufacturing.
Innovation Chain also develops software to leverage engineering expertise across the organization, evaluate design alternatives, and deliver distilled, focused information into the hands of decision makers.